Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Caroline Chen discusses why opening restaurants and other indoor venues which involve prolonged contact is the worst possible choice if one wants to…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Caroline Chen discusses why opening restaurants and other indoor venues which involve prolonged contact is the worst possible choice if one wants to…
In these dark times, we all need a good laugh. If you haven’t already seen this, I guarantee a lightening of the spirit. Recommend this Post
Yesterday, Donald Trump’s lawyers argued that it was too late to convict Donald Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors. That should have been done, they proclaimed, while he was in…
Having worked in and around politics for as long as I have, it’s easy for my positivity about and hope in the profession to be lessened. I’ve gotten to work…
Having worked in and around politics for as long as I have, it’s easy for my positivity about and hope in the profession to be lessened. I’ve gotten to work…
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected economies from the local to the global and we can rebuild our economy using old destructive methods or rebuild it in a way that…
It was an interesting program on Steve Paikin’s Agenda last week that was co-sponsored by TVOntario and the Toronto Star. It was on Canada’s prospects in sustaining its democracy. The…
In a story on CollingwoodToday, our mayor, Brian Saunderson, shrugs off the costs of his Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (the SVJI) as being but a drop in the bucket for the…
Two MLAs from Premier Jason Kenney’s government caucus have joined a national coalition of elected and former politicians dedicated to the proposition restrictions on social and commercial activities intended to…
Elevated cats.
I have called Erin O'Toole a Con clown, ever since the days he was brown nosing Stephen Harper. Trying to make Harper look like a real leader, only to make…
The good news is that the Dems carried the day on the challenge to the constitutionality of impeaching a president after he has left office. The bad news is that…
There are many great problems in late-industrial modern society, and there are many ways these problems can be addressed – some of them more effective than others. In this short…
Many on the left insist that dealing with global warming necessitates dealing with capitalism. Because the latter causes the former, they say, it is the root of the problem. Replacing…
Outside the Olympiastadion, Berlin. Photo by Will Pimblett/Flickr. On February 9, Green Party leader Annamie Paul stated that Canada should take over hosting duties for the 2022 Olympics Games, citing…
Why the anti-vaxxer argument does not hold up: That is to say, why the vitriolic proponents of forced covid vaccines are categorically in the wrong Here is my response to…
Over the weekend, 12 more cases of the UK or South Africa variant were detected in BC. So far health officials have confirmed 25 cases of the UK variant B117—including…
A study of global deaths in 2018 found that 8.7 million resulted from fossil fuel pollution. Researchers contend that amounts to one in five deaths that year. The findings are…